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Seyfarth Synopsis: Ninth Circuit overturns district court’s dismissal of website accessibility lawsuit on due process and primary jurisdiction grounds, remands case to proceed with discovery.

On January 15, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the fifth federal appeals court ruling on the issue of website accessibility, and there is no doubt that it is a victory for plaintiffs…
Continue Reading Ninth Circuit Allows the Robles v. Domino’s Website and Mobile App Accessibility Lawsuit to Move Forward

By Jon D. Meer

When defendants win in a Title III ADA accessibility case, they are entitled to seek their reasonable attorneys’ fees.  To recover, defendants have to show that the claims were “frivolous, unreasonable or without foundation.”  While most claims that are dismissed on summary judgment would seem to meet this standard, district courts often deny fees to prevailing…
Continue Reading Defendants May Have Another Chance at Recovering Attorneys’ Fees for Frivolous ADA Claims

By Kristina M. Launey

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a plaintiff must show intentional, willful, affirmative discriminatory action by a public accommodation to prevail on a claim for violation of California’s Unruh Act (one of the state’s ADA Title III-corollary statutes). There are actually two avenues through which a plaintiff can establish an Unruh Act violation:…
Continue Reading Ninth Circuit: Unruh Act Claims (Not Based on the ADA) Require Affirmative, Intentional, Wilful, Discriminatory Action

By Andrew C. Crane

On January 28, 2014, in Martinez v. Columbia Sportswear USA Corp., the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for our three retail defendants, holding for the first time that a 60-inch long dressing room bench constitutes an “equivalent facilitation” under the 1991 ADA Standards, which specify that benches must…
Continue Reading Ninth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Retail Store Defendants